100gal Build: New Pics

karazy · #1 08-17-2009, 06:30 PM

simply awesome. i really want to do an oddball reef one day.

lastlight · #2 08-17-2009, 06:43 PM

Do you edit out background etc in photoshop? These look fantastic. Some of them have that electron microscope look.

sphelps · #3 08-17-2009, 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by lastlight

Do you edit out background etc in photoshop? These look fantastic. Some of them have that electron microscope look.

Yes, my macros usually come out with very dark backgrounds and I usually change them to be completely black or some kind of gradient, I find the effect is better and the background is less distracting. They were all taken with a 105mm macro lens. Thanks!

Mikee · #4 08-18-2009, 12:30 AM

wow nice! how hard is it to keep tilefish? i may want to try them in my seahorse tank. Right now i have a pair of kudas, dragon pipefish, and 2 clownfish (interesting story behind these two).

sphelps · #5 08-18-2009, 01:19 AM

The tilefish I have are easy which I hear is pretty normal. The tasseled eats algae and they both eat mysis like pigs, almost too much for my slow little seahorse.

sphelps · #6 08-18-2009, 04:06 AM

Couple more

superduperwesman · #7 08-18-2009, 11:26 PM

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Originally Posted by sphelps

They were all taken with a 105mm macro lens. Thanks!

WOW! Sounds like a nice lens. Nikon? Lucky guy the guy who owns that lens

lastlight · #8 08-18-2009, 11:49 PM

Those last 3 are seriously among the nicest and most stylin' shots I've seen yet from this site or that other one! That lens is so nice...thankfully my father-in-law has it so I can borrow until I'm not a broke ass.

Last one is pure FIREWORKS.

sphelps · #9 08-20-2009, 02:37 AM

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Originally Posted by superduperwesman

WOW! Sounds like a nice lens. Nikon? Lucky guy the guy who owns that lens

Haha, i think the guy that gets to use it without actually buying it is slightly luckier, or maybe luck has nothing to do with it

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Originally Posted by lastlight

Those last 3 are seriously among the nicest and most stylin' shots I've seen yet from this site or that other one! That lens is so nice...thankfully my father-in-law has it so I can borrow until I'm not a broke ass.

Last one is pure FIREWORKS.

Thanks, I was trying something a little different on the last two, glad you liked them.

sphelps · #10 10-06-2009, 03:54 PM

It's been a while but thought I'd post a little update.

Last week I introduced a clam from another tank. The clam spawned in the previous owners tank and was becoming an issue so I removed it. I didn't want to destroy it since it was a large clam and only doing what is natural to it. I left the clam in a large bucket for a few hours and with no signs of spawning I figured it would safe to put the clam in my tank. All was well for the first hour until my other somewhat large squamosa started spawning, then the new clam started up again. Within minutes all my clams except the large gigas were spawning

. The tank was pure white but I let the clams finish and then filtered out the sperm and eggs with mechanical media and wet skimming, needless to say

. Two 25% water changes later and the tank was clear with no casualties.

Since I already told the boss I couldn't come into work because I needed to filter the sperm out of my fish tank I decided to get a little work done. Nothing like a little disaster to get you motivated

So I reaquascaped and made better room for the new clam.

I also later installed my new pump

and finished up the plumbing I started so long ago. I put in a new larger tank for a sump to handle the extra flow from the new pump. I'm going to add a few things to the sump to better incorporate some mechanical media, carbon and a steady water level for the skimmer but that's it. Still going the simple route.

Hope you enjoyed the little update, I obviously still have a lot of work to do but winter is long and summer is short. Priorities will change soon enough